No proof of India’s role in Balochistan trouble’
`No proof of India?s role in Balochistan trouble?
New Delhi: In a statement that could embarrass Pakistan, which has claimed that India is fuelling unrest in Balochistan, a Baloch Senator has said there is no proof to suggest that New Delhi is fomenting trouble there.
"We don't have a proof. As a representative of Baloch people and a leader of a National Party, I have no information on this. Maybe, intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan have knowledge about it," Baloch leader and Senator Mir Hasil Bizenjo said last night.
He was replying to queries after the release of the autobiography of his late father Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo titled: In Search of Solutions.
He was asked whether he, as a leader of Balochistan, is aware of India's involvement in the region.
Asking India to realise the threat perception posed by terrorism from its neighbourhood, the Senator said terror emanating from Afghanistan reached Pakistan in no time and New Delhi should keep this fact in mind.
The war "fought in Afghanistan (in 1980's) did not bother Pakistanis. But ultimately Peshawar or Frontier (in Pakistan) bore the brunt on a daily basis...
"If, India and Iran along with Afghanistan and Pakistan do not devise a strategy then it has every potential to reach in these countries," he said.
Pakistan has claimed that India promotes terrorism in Balochistan, situated on Pak-Afghan border.
Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar released the book in the presence of Pakistan High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik, leading peace activist B M Kutty and Pakistani journalist Sheikh Asad Rehman.
Saying that the genesis of troubles in Afghanistan and Pakistan dates back to the 1980's Afghan war that aimed at defeating Communism and USSR, Mir Hasil said those who fought it were not aware of the impact.
He said it took not more than 20 years to witness the guns "turning from Kabul to Islamabad".
Questioning the intention of the US-led war to defeat terror in Afghanistan-Pakistan, he said, "America, France know that if they will not fight terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan then they will have to fight them in their backyards. That is why they are spending billions and trillions."
Targeting Pakistan, he alleged a process is continuing in the country to build China against India.
He said the war in Afghanistan will not be won till Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and India unite to tackle the menace (of terrorism) as NATO forces will never be able to defeat "these forces".
Talking about the Senator's comment that "there is not much difference between Islamabad and Kabul", the Pakistan High Commissioner later said, "To me, comparing the two will be excessive. There are lots of differences. That stage has not come yet."
He added: "the condition in Afghanistan should improve for the betterment of our Afghan brothers and I am sure other countries in the region would also like to see that happen".